Another Fun Munroe Adventure

The Vanessa Munroe novels have quickly become a favorite of mine, having somewhat filled the hole left by the end of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series. So while looking for a book to take on vacation with me this summer, I was thrilled to find The Mask.

On this go-round Vanessa has joined her lover in Japan after he takes a rather mundane job in security for a biomedical company.  Shortly thereafter he is framed for the murder of one of the employees and it is up to her to save him from a life in Japanese prison.



As always, I enjoyed the fast pace action as Munroe has to kick ass and take names to save her boyfriend, however, this time around it was plagued by what I felt were unnecessary emotions. I personally did not understand why she took such great offense to some of the things Bradford had done and said.  In their line of work, deception is a must and with the well spoken trust that has been built between them in the previous novels, her heartbreak and misgivings didn't make much sense.  It seemed like the author was struggling to have a sub-plot which would lend heart to an otherwise typical mystery. 

I enjoyed this book and would absolutely recommend it to anyone, whether they had read the earlier books in the series or not.  That being said though, I am not sure it would be anything other than a fun and easy throwaway vacation read had I not already been invested in the characters prior. 

Disclosure: I was given this book for free in exchange for a fair and honest review. 

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